Manuscript sources

This section of the site will eventually list the known pieces by Legrenzi which were not published either during his lifetime or posthumously by Giovanni Varischino, starting with operas and oratorios. The listings give title, librettist, date and place of performance(s), location of score(s), location of libretto(s) [pardon the grammar!], and additional information.

Operas

Nino il giusto
? Bentivoglio
No musical source known
Ferrara, Teatro S. Stefano, 1662
No libretto source known

L'Achille in Sciro

? Bentivoglio
No musical source known
Ferrara, Teatro S. Stefano, 1663
Libretto: I-Bc 2677
Venice, Teatro S. Salvatore, 1664
Libretti: US-Wc Schatz 5532 (dated 1663) and
   11720 (dated 1664); I-Bc 5713 (1664)
Bologna, Teatro Formigliari, 1673

Zenobia e Radamisto
? Bentivoglio
Score: I-Nc, Rari 6.5.10
Ferrara, Teatro S. Stefano, 1665
Libretto: I-Bc 2678
Brescia, Teatro degli Erranti, 1666
Libretto: I-Bc 7396
Macerata, Teatro di Macerata, 1690

Oratorios

Oratorio del giuditio

No musical source is known
Hippolito Bentivoglio
Libretto: I-Vnm, A-SPL (dated 1668)
Venice, S. Maria della Consolazione (=Fava), 1672
cf. Busta 68, Arnold 5

Other Church Music

Invitiatorum


Source: I-Vnm

Credidi propter locutus sum
Alto, 2 vn, 2 va, BC
D-Bsb Mus.ms.30222

Laudate, pueri, Dominum [Psalm 112]
SSATB, Tp, 2 vn, 2 va, Bsn, BC
D-Bsb Mus.ms.30229

Prosa pro mortuis
SATB, SATB, 3 viols, BC
F-Pn Vm� 1298
Edited
Recorded on Ricercar

Instrumental Music

Rost Collection, Paris

Secular Music

Volo vivere arbitris meo
Alto, BC
D-Bsb Mus.ms.30222

Notte, madre d'orrori
S, BC
D-Bsb Mus.ms.30212

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